The Victorian Heritage Database is a fully searchable online database containing information about Victorian Heritage Places and Precincts,
including statements of significance, physical descriptions, historical information, builder, architectural style, photographs and heritage overlay number.
The Victorian Heritage Database & the AppMyState Competition
For the Victorian
AppMyState competition, Heritage Victoria is offering participating developers
access to its public data through two channels.
Full Download of core data
You can
download a snapshot of the current Heritage data as a text file; then use that data in your own application.
The text file is
GZIP compressed and contains data for one place record per line.
Each line contains the following, TAB (ASCII Code 9) separated columns:
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Place ID
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A unique ID identifying the Heritage Place.
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Place Name
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A short textual description of the place.
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Place Owner
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The municipality that the place is listed under. State listed places have a place owner of Heritage Victoria.
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Location
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Address information for the place
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Longitude & Latitude
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Geo-Location of the place.
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A header row contains the column descriptions.
The snapshot data is updated daily, and can be accessed at the following URL:
http://vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/download/appmystate/latest.txt.gz
Detailled JSON Data for individual place records
The core data file only contains very basic information for each place; in particular it does not contain any image references or statements of significance.
The live API allows your application to access more detailled information about an individual place, identified by its Place ID.
For example, to retrieve the detailled data on Place ID 1, your application would get the following URL:
http://vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/appmystate/place/1
Contact
For further information and requests, pls. contact Jennifer Dawson (Jennifer.Dawson @ dpcd.vic.gov.au)